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Amish craftsmen confronted with a nail gun and an impact driver. Yeah you can still build a house swinging your arm if you want, but others won't.
by meetingthrower 6mo ago
Amish craftsmen confronted with a nail gun and an impact driver. Yeah you can still build a house swinging your arm if you want, but others won't.
- suzzer99 6mo agoYes, notoriously tech-averse software developers who hate tools that make their jobs easier.
- MattGaiser 6mo agoThis cohort has always existed though. Users of Notepad and Vim still exist.
- squigz 6mo agoGrouping Notepad and vim together under "tools that make your job harder" is pretty wild. Has anyone ever known a serious, professional programmer who used Notepad to code?
- siriusastrebe 6mo agoNext you'll be telling me there's punch card programmers still. For love of the punch card craft.
- unsupp0rted 6mo agoYes, on HN they do, notoriously. Until just a couple years ago I would regularly read comments complaining when a website doesn't work because the hacker browses with javascript disabled, for example. This isn't the early-adopter crowd: it's the refuses to even be a late-adopter crowd.
- Nasrudith 6mo agoIt is the crowd that understands what parts are functional and in fact chooses security over the dancing bears of the world. It isn't an aversion to tech, it is an aversion to doing things which are worse. In this case massive bloat, ads, and tracking of websites which does the opposite of serving the user when they're just looking for text. Adoption of technology shouldn't be a binary of 'use it for everything/refuse to use it for anything'.